Manager, Instruction and Program Design
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Meritus CollegeHigher education
Candidates must reside within the 50 states or District of Columbia ... international work abroad, including the U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other islands are excluded).Full-TimeManager
Salary113,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years in instructional or learning design
- Required Skills
- Project Management
Requirements
- Hold a bachelor's degree; a master's degree in higher education, counseling, or a related field is preferred.
- Have 5+ years of instructional or learning design experience.
- Provide a portfolio of courses you personally built.
- Bring experience designing for online, competency-based, or workforce-aligned programs serving working adults; this experience is strongly preferred.
- Have experience managing people or leading a team, formally or as a project lead.
- Have experience partnering with subject matter experts and guiding course builds.
- Demonstrate technical fluency with learning management systems, authoring and media tools, AI-enabled instructional tools, and accessibility standards.
- Be able to manage multiple course builds and team workstreams against firm term deadlines.
- Be comfortable creating templates, standards, and processes in a start-up environment.
- Apply learner-centered judgment to identify and address challenges for working adults and non-traditional learners.
Responsibilities
- Lead the instruction and learner support workplan, maintaining projects, milestones, owners, timelines, and statuses.
- Facilitate meetings and internal reviews, set agendas, document decisions and next steps, and ensure follow-through.
- Translate priorities into actionable plans, track commitments, and resolve blockers.
- Design and build college courses in the learning management system, including structure, sequencing, activities, assessments, media, and learner-facing materials.
- Translate competencies and learning outcomes into instruction for working adults in an online environment.
- Create and maintain course design standards, templates, and style guides.
- Partner with subject matter experts and adjunct faculty to scope, guide, and review course builds.
- Manage course build timelines and dependencies, and flag risks to term-start readiness.
- Use learner performance, coach and support observations, and LMS data to identify course issues and drive revisions.
- Maintain course documentation for accreditation review and develop practical solutions to process, tooling, or ownership gaps.
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